💼 About This Role

You'll lead a global SRE organization responsible for the reliability and operational excellence of the Aiven platform. You'll set the vision and strategy to ensure resilient, scalable, and highly automated systems across 24/7/365 operations. This role offers the chance to define a global SRE strategy and drive cross-functional coordination with engineering, product, and support teams worldwide.

🎯 What You'll Do

• Define and drive global SRE operating strategy across EMEA, AMER, and APAC.
• Build and lead a multi-regional SRE organization through managers.
• Set vision and roadmap for reliability engineering tools and automation.
• Own global incident management strategy and on-call design.
• Establish metrics-driven operating cadence with KPIs, SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets.

📋 Requirements

• Proven experience leading and scaling global SRE or infrastructure organizations through managers.
• Strong track record of defining and executing reliability strategy at scale including SLIs/SLOs and incident management.
• Demonstrated ability to build, develop, and mentor senior leaders.
• Experience operating in a 24/7/365 production environment with follow-the-sun model.
• Solid technical foundation in distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and automation.

✨ Nice to Have

• Experience driving large-scale organizational change.
• Ability to partner cross-functionally at the executive level.
• Data-driven leadership approach with metrics-driven prioritization.

🎁 Benefits & Perks

• 📈 Equity plan participation
• 🏠 Hybrid work policy
• 💻 Equipment choice for success
• 📚 Professional Development Plan budget for learning
• ❤️ Global Employee Assistance Program for wellbeing support

📨 Hiring Process

Estimated timeline: 3-5 weeks · AI estimate

1. 1Recruiter Screen· 30 min
2. 2Hiring Manager Interview· 60 min
3. 3Technical Interview· 60 min